Weird News

Hide your eyes and count your blessings
Old Bridge, N.J. ------------------------------ An 8-year-old boy fell from a second-story window during a game of hide-and-seek, sending him to a hospital, police said.
                                                                      The child suffered a head injury and was flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.com reported.  His condition was not immediately available, but police said he was expected to survive.
                                                                      The boy was hiding behind window blinds inside a bathroom at an Old Bridge home, police said.
                                                                      "His 11-year-old brother went to tag him and pushed a little too hard," a police spokesman said.
                                                                      The 8-year-old went through the screen and landed on a shingled overhang.  He then rolled off and hit the concrete sidewalk headfirst.

'I do' want to get off probation
Austin, Texas --------------------------------- A group that advocated for the seperation of church and state has filed a complaint about a Texas judge who ordered a man to marry his girlfriend as a condition of probation.
                                                                     The Freedom From Religion Foundation said it filed the complaint against Smith County Court-at-Law Judge Randall Rogers a day earlier with the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct in Austin.
                                                                    Rodgers gave Josten Bundy 30 days to marry 19-year-old Elizabeth James or face 15 days in jail on a guilty plea for misdemeanor assault.  Bundy, 21, admitted he punched James' ex-boyfriend twice in the jaw for "saying disrespectful things" about her.  Rogers also ordered Bundy to scrawl a Bible verse 25 times daily.

Leaf blower not OK to bring to flick
Newport Beach, Calif. ---------------------- Newport Beach police questioned four people in connection with a scare at a movie theater that occurred when someone started a leaf blower that many mistook for a chainsaw.
                                                                     The Orange County Register reported that no arrests had been made but the four are cooperating with investigators.  Police say they turned themselves in for questioning after surveillance photos were released.
                                                                     Three people had minor injuries in the panicked rush to get out of the theater during the showing of "The Gift" last weekend.  Police responded to multiple 9-1-1 calls.
                                                                     The suspects fled through an emergency exit.

Young EMT dies while performing CPR
Effort, Pa. ------------------------------------- A Pennsylvania emergency medical technician has died after falling ill while performing CPR at the New Jersey Jaycee Camp, a camp for the developmentally disabled.
                                                                     Samantha Agins' mother told the Pocono Record the 22-year-old EMT died after suffering a series of strokes while performing CPR on a woman who went into cardiac arrest at the camp in Effort.  The woman Agins was trying to help died.  Agins died days later at Thomas Jefferson Hospital.